Yes, it's mid-afternoon here. But the last 24-36 hours have been a blur.
The first snag came when we went to check in at the American Airline desk at Logan Airport in Boston. For the first time I've ever seen or Liz has ever seen, the clerks were going to charge us extra because our bags were over fifty pounds each. Nevermind the fact that we were allowed four bags total, and we only had two. So we ended up having to go to the Hudson News bookstand next door to buy two extra duffle bags.
Oh, and our flight to New York's JFK Airport was now 35 minutes later. Giving us under one hour to switch terminals and airlines to make our plane to Dubai.
As it turns out, by the time our American Airlines plane pulled into the gate at terminal 9 at JFK it was a few minutes after 10 pm. Our flight on Emirates Airline started boarding at 10 pm ... from terminal 4.
Liz and I ran a damn marathon through terminal 9, up escalators, across moving platforms, down escalators - I'm thinking that JFK's terminal 9 is actually somewhere in the Boston suburbs.
After a nice little train ride to cap off the trip, we show up at Emirates. Phew. But since we switched terminals we had to go through security again. Crap. Okay, we can do this.
"We're here for Emirates flight two-oh-two."
"Oh that plane is already boarding."
"Yep - here are our boarding passes."
"What are these? Oh, you're going to have to have those reprinted at the Emirates desk, row seven."
Apparently the Boarding Passes we got in Boston are wrong and have to be reprinted for some unknown reason.
Luckily for us, international flights start boarding an hour before the plane leaves, not a half-hour like domestic flights. And even more luckily, the gate that our plane was boarding at was the first one once you got through security.
So we passed through security and boom, were right there, in a line of about eighty people. Guess we didn't need to run after all.
The plane ride was fine - coming this way the flight was only eleven hours (as opposed to fourteen and a quarter going to the States).
Of course, once we got to Dubai last night only two of our four bags made it (ironically they were the two newly purchased duffle bags). But at some point this morning the other two showed up at the apartment. So we're all set.
Although majorly jetlagged. I woke up at 1:30 this afternoon and it felt like the middle of the night. But I figured I had to get up to beat the jetlag.
Anyway, we had a great time at home. I want to thank all of our friends and family for a great vacation, and especially to both sets of our parents. They gave us the run of their houses, fridges and cars. So very nice of them!
Thank you!!
Here are a few news stories that I've seen while we were away. Most are Dubai construction related, because Dubai construction is the craziest growing phenom ever ...
